Quotations

Interviewer: If you lived in the West Bank or Gaza, what would you do?

Ami Ayalon, former director of Israeli Security Agency Shin Bet: I would fight back, I would do everything in my power to secure my liberation. They know they’re the oppressors, they just don’t care.

Miranda Threlfall-Holmes

@MirandaTHolmes

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I went to a conference on whiteness last autumn. It was very good, very interesting and made me realise: whiteness is to race as patriarchy is to gender. So yes, let’s have anti whiteness, & let’s smash the patriarchy. That’s not anti-white, or anti-men, it’s anti-oppression.

She is the Protestant Archdeaconess of Liverpool. She is married to a man called Phil. I wonder if she agrees with St Paul's words 'Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord'.

Simon Jenkins today in the Guardian: "Almost half a century of George Kennan’s policy of containment and cohabitation with communism has given way to a shrill new agenda. Not just Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and Syria, but states across Asia and Africa are regularly castigated as tyrannical, terrorist or genocidal. They are made victims of economic aggression through sanctions, distorting global trade and impoverishing millions. There is no evidence this castigation has advanced the cause of democracy an inch – quite the opposite."

Heidegger: “Europe lies in the pincers between Russia and America, which are metaphysically the same in regard to their world-character and their relation to the spirit”